He asks if Iraq wants to return to square one and the days of coups, chaos,sectarianism, al Qa'eda,and Saddam Hussein.

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And in keeping with that idea of a kind of a return to chaos, Noah is represented in a way as the beginning of a new creation.

这种观点相当于又回到混沌时代，诺亚在某种程度来说，标志着一个新的创世纪的开始。

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